Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Captain Gus Broberg leading the attack, Dartmouth met its first severe test away from home in the Saturday night triumph over Cornell at Ithaca. Dartmouth is now assured of retaining its advantage until the teams settle into the hand-to-hand fighting of the crowded February schedule. With mid-year examinations engaging the major attention of the athletes through the various campuses of the league, the schedules for the next two weeks are light and Dartmouth is not listed to start again until February...
...fictional situation is utilized in the Ames Competition cases to test legal situations which have not yet been passed on directly by the regular courts. Decision is reached on trial technique and merits of the brief, not on the law of the case, since this may subsequently come before the judges in the regular courts...
Last week the Bell Airacobra (P-39), already in production, was ready for its final test dive. For four days Test Pilot Andrew McDonough, on a busman's holiday from Eastern Airlines' Miami-Chicago run, had had her aloft feeling her out, making longer and faster dives as pilot and ship got acquainted. Swaddled in a leather flying suit, stringy, 29-year-old Andy McDonough crawled into the cabin for the last trip, secured his capsule microphone alongside his Adam's apple, quickly checked over his instruments. Across the Buffalo Airport and into the air sped...
...film, corrected his airspeed readings for temperature and pressure. Pilot McDonough had reported his speed at something over 500. Actually, said technicians, he and the P39 had hit 620 m.p.h.-more speed than anyone had ever recorded before. Exciting rather than highly significant, the dive was still a stern test of P-39's sleekness, sturdiness...
These examinations are drawn up by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and are designed to test a student's general knowledge of the entire Liberal Arts course besides the student's own particular field of concentration...